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tiger72
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Re: The blocks are reasonable!!! - THINK OF THE CHILDREN OMG!

said by jvanbrecht See Profile :

On the flip side, the "for the children" argument gets thrown around an awful lot, when it comes to child porn, its a no brainer, but whats next, sex education sites, game sites with sexual content, all those laws aimed at child porn seem to include all sorts of broad contexts, rife for abuse, and I am sort of against that.
Look at the french, and you'll see what's next: "racist" sites, "terrorism" sites. You know, for the children.
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"What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
-United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968) Robert S. McNamara

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June 11th, @12:10PM

said by tiger72 See Profile :

said by jvanbrecht See Profile :

On the flip side, the "for the children" argument gets thrown around an awful lot, when it comes to child porn, its a no brainer, but whats next, sex education sites, game sites with sexual content, all those laws aimed at child porn seem to include all sorts of broad contexts, rife for abuse, and I am sort of against that.
Look at the french, and you'll see what's next: "racist" sites, "terrorism" sites. You know, for the children.
Slippery slope. If you don't do anything now, the time will come when nothing can be done to help you.

said by »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came :
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

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You win at Godwin's Law


tiger72
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said by DataShade See Profile :

You win at Godwin's Law
You win at misapplying Godwin's Law.

I see no direct comparison between TWC and Hitler as is necessary to invoke Godwin's Law.

I do see a comparison between TWC's increasing censorship and the mindset of "I don't care because it doesn't effect me yet".
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"What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
-United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968) Robert S. McNamara

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June 12th, @12:02PM

said by tiger72 See Profile :

You win at misapplying Godwin's Law.

I see no direct comparison between TWC and Hitler as is necessary to invoke Godwin's Law.

I do see a comparison between TWC's increasing censorship and the mindset of "I don't care because it doesn't effect me yet".
Well, the Wikipedia article I linked to says "usenet" conversations, so if you want to be technical it doesn't apply to a web forum conversation ... but assuming it does, the link defines Godwin's law with the phrase "the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." And the original post I responded to quoted: "When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent" which I'm pretty sure qualifies as "a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler."

EDIT: quoted response for clarity
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